This means so much to us, not only for the obvious reasons, but because audio drama is a rare thing in Australian podcasting. There's only a handful of us, and there were even less when we first launched. So being finalists is proof that there is a place for audio drama in Australian podcasting.

And as well as that - we are a queer show, made by queer people for queer people, and we're a romance show, which is a genre often considered frivolous. To be finalists, being those things as well, really means so much to us, to have those things about us be valued as highly as we value them ourselves.

The Australian Podcast Award winners will be announced on 5 May, and you better believe we're going to be on that red carpet!

Love and Luck's creators would like to acknowledge that Love and Luck is made on the stolen land of the Kulin Nation. It is both set and produced on the lands of the Boon Wurrung people and the Wurundjeri people.

We pay our respects to Elders past, present, and emerging, and extend that respect to all Indigenous people.

Sovereignty was never ceded. Australia always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.